Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-29
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The Carlisle-Thoebe contest will be
taken up January 6.
Losses by fire in Cincinnati for the
past year amount to $SSt0,000.
Explorer Stanley has been heard
from. Garry the news to his publish
ers.
1t appears that another amateur
marksman has been shooting at the
Gar.
There are four preachers in the House
of Representatives. How are the mighty
fallenl
Charles S. Fairehild, of New York,
has been confirmed Secretary of the
Treasury.
Seth c. Moffat, Member of Congress
from Michigan, died at Washington
Thursday.
Sidney, Ohio, is to vote on the propo-
sition to appropriate 100000 for new
water works
KlJrain and Smith have mutually
agreed to call the recent fight between
them a draw.
It is rumored that the Pope intends
to make Archbishop Williams, of Bos-
ton, Cardinal.
an old-fashioned distemper of CLAN
ders is raging among the horses in Mer-
Ger county, Ohio.
Next Monday the Ohio Legislature
will being to set Congress some shining
examples OF reform.
Jem Carney, of England, the cham
pion lightweight of the world, has re-
tired from the ring.
Senator Stanford gives his private
secretary his entire salary and mileage,
amounting to-about $1,000.
The Government of New South
Wales has offered reward of S125,000]
for recipe for killing rabbits.
Texas is on her feet again. The acre
age of winter wheat in that State has
increased from 10 to 100 per cent.
The year just closing has been one of
unprecedented business in the United
States, with fair but not excessive profits !
Flushman & Cos dry goods store and
Yeager & Co.'S toy store at Pittsburgh
were destroyed by fire. Loss 100000. !
Gen. Nathan Goff, OF West Virginia,
is just now enjoying a decided boom
for the Republican nomination for Vice
President.
Hon. John L. Sullivan has SHE'D his
castor into the arena and issued chal-
lenge to Smith or Kilrain to slug for
$4,000 side.
Mileage for Congressman is reckoned
at 40 cents mile. Car fares cost 2! or
3 ceutsa mile. There is a big profit in
being Congressman.
Detective Norris OF Springfield, while
prisoners in the Colum-
bus pen, had his pockets picked of some
valuable memoranda and deed.
Talk of bottled lightningP'- Jay
Gould has completely cornered electri-
city, SO far as American telegraphy is
concerned. He'll receive a shock some
day.
A Michigan man thinks that by drain
ing certain Tennessee bog lands he can
make fortune raising celery. He has
just bought 1000 acres near Chattanoo-
ga for this purpose
The cold snap which caught the Kan
sas farmers last week without an ade-
quate supply offuel forces them to burn
corn, furniture and parts Of their hous-
es, and there is much suffering.
John Edman, an Ohio man, proposes
to start daily newspaper in the Fin
nish language at Ishpeming, Mich, Jan.
l. 1t will be the only daily in that Ian
guage published in the United States.
The year 1887 has been the most dis
astrous year on the great lakes since
1888 Two hundred and four lives have
been lost and 73 vessels, registered at
20,687 tons, causing loss Of over 81
100000.
1t is said that Cincinnati is the most
crowded city in the country outside of
New York In Cincinnati the average
is fourteen people to every house. In
most Of the great inland cities it is from
six to ten.
A labor paper, to be called the Eagle,
is projected in New York. tits intend
ed to let the Eagle fly when 10000 sub
scribers are obtained. Judging from
all previous efforts in that line the Ea-
gleis not likely to leave his perch.
The Chicago grand jury has returned
an indictment against Ralph W. Lee,
charged with attempting to murder his
step-father, S. W. Rawson. the Presi- I
dent of the Union Trust Co, several
weeks ago, just as the latter came out
of the Third Presbyterian Church at
the conclusion of the Sunday morning
service